Hypersomnia

Hypersomnia or excessive sleepiness is a condition when a person sleeps abnormally long or abnormally often. The opposite is insomnia. The most common causes are hypothyroidism, alcoholism, and chronic heart failure. Sleepiness and fatigue can be also symptoms of natural exhaustion after winter, depression, insufficiency of blood, heart diseases, diabetes, allergy, chronic fatigue syndrome, or sleep disorders such as insomnia, breathing disorders in sleep, or excessive daytime sleepiness, the so-called hypersomnia.
Hypersomnia has different degrees:
● Moderate: When you feel light drowsiness or fatigue during the day. These conditions do not limit you but you may be without concentration. What would help you? Plenty of vitamins, a healthy lifestyle, and quality night’s sleep.
● Medium: Sleepiness disturbs you during monotonous work, at the computer, or while listening to music. You sleep in the cinema, in the theater, or in other public places. Microsleep behind the steering wheel is dangerous and can occur. What would help? Adjustment of lifestyle, getting enough sleep even with an afternoon nap. If nothing helps, you need to consult a doctor.
● Critical: You fall asleep even during active activity, i.e. when talking, behind the steering wheel, even while walking, or during normal household activities. You could sleep eighteen hours a day. Sometimes a behavioral disorder can also be added – aggressiveness, excessive eating. What would help? Breathing exercises of a functional type, sufficient night sleep, and repeated sleep during the day.